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Article #62Re: Upstate New York
From: Tom Hand
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:48
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:48
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"Ichabod Crane <http://www.rev.net/people/aloe/longisland>" <aloe@rev.net> wrote in message news:3c71fdc2$0$23183$4c41069e@reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net... > D. Citron (dcitron@gate.net) wrote: > : Please vote for your favorite definitions of "Upstate NY". > : Definition 1: Anyplace in NY state (except Long Island, because it isn't > : "up") in which they don't regard NYC as the center of the civilized world > : or call it "the city". > : Definition 2: Anyplace in NY state (except Long Island, because it isn't > : "up") in which they appreciate that NYC is not part of civilization as we > : know it. > : Definition 3: Anyplace in NY state (except Long Island, because it isn't > : "up") that is more than reasonable commuting distance from NYC. (Of > : course, this depends upon your definition of "reasonable"!) > : Definition 4: Anyplace in NY state (except Long Island, because it isn't > : "up") where residents consider a visit to NYC as slumming, or where > : they say that NYC is "a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live > : there." > > The lowest land in the state of New Yorkshire is at sea level. > Therefore, sea level is as far downstate as you can get. Tide reaches > West Point. > > -- Ichabod Crane <http://www.rev.net/people/aloe/longisland> > > Correction: Tide reaches Troy. Maybe salt reaches West Point.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10870e,ce8615200549c6e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10870e,public X-Google-Thread: f82f0,ce8615200549c6e0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf82f0,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-18 23:50:07 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!newsfeed1.thebiz.net!not-for-mail From: "Tom Hand" <troybuoy@altavista.com> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.geograph,alt.culture.ny-upstate References: <3c71fdc2$0$23183$4c41069e@reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net> Subject: Re: Upstate New York Lines: 32 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <hrnc8.1819$17.1171314@newsfeed1.thebiz.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 8dp0sKqbZOcZWbJT7zTlv+jbME2saoKHYG4ye2IuZfj4i7Ud0nAhH5n3i8UNiXg= X-Trace: WOEq+j5VqkhGUwI81TTJDAhM9uvFadMODIqopX/7fu+lV45HGAkKNsBzOYqFWp59psgajNISvG1n!UT3gLVdJe1TIYimig8DT5K846Blp8f482Y+3xZPQYnHuKMk4LrzUrioGyhQuWhTppl9US4OXutb5!UlazlL0ENA7wTWwDrrsp056CnOo= X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@thebiz.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers to X-Abuse-Info: news-abuse@thebiz.net, otherwise we will be unable X-Abuse-Info: to process your complaint properly. NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:48:29 EST Organization: BiznessOnline.com, Inc. Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:48:59 GMT